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3 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Time is running out to save Hisham, who is barely responsive and suffering from severe kidney failure after 140 days (4.5 months) of hunger strike.

We demand the immediate release of Hisham as well as all Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.
Despite detaining him since October 2020, Israeli authorities have never charged Hisham abu Hawwash with a crime or allowed him to stand trial. His original detention order was for 6 months, but they have successively renewed it and can do so as many more times as they please.
For prisoners, hunger strikes are the last and only available form of resistance; though the process is grueling and potentially life-threatening, it is also a reclamation of control over their bodies, and a testament to Israel’s failure to suppress their struggle for freedom.
Heed the call of Hisham, his children, and the Palestinians standing in solidarity with him: share Hisham’s freedom struggle on social media and organize protests outside of Israeli embassies in your city.
Art by @/ma3bs on Instagram, adapted by JVP

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